Breath of Fire: Dragon Quarter Walkthrough & Strategy Guide

Published: Jan 27, 2003

Characters

This section of the guide
is devoted to the three main characters in the game. All of their skills are listed,
along with one or two ways to find them (usually the first way that I found
them). Some skills cannot be learned, but can only be used when certain items are
equipped.

Ryu

Ryu is a swordsman. He hits hard throughout the game, but
runs into a problem with his mobility. Sometimes he can't move far enough to
take advantage of his strength! When you get used to this quandary, you will
find him a very useful enemy basher.

Aside from regular sword strikes, Ryu has one
outstanding ability - his ability to turn into a dragon. I will talk more about
this in the Game Basics section.

Skills

10 AP Skills

Slice

Location: Ryu
starts with this skill.Additional Notes: None

Side Slash

Location:
Found on the second floor of the Lift to BioCorp stage. It is in the blue
chest.Additional Notes:
This skill combos with the 20 AP Vert
Slash. Check it
out!

Thrust

Location:
Stolen from the GarPikes on the first floor of the Frozen Road area.Additional Notes:
None

Kick

Location: Found
in the blue chest on the third floor of the Lift to BioCorp stage.Additional Notes: Great at the beginning of the game when you are using Nina's
traps...

Third Eye

Location:
Stolen from Lead Gunner in the Frozen Road: Storage area.Additional Notes:
None

Ogre Slice

Location:
Found in the Lift to BioCorp stage. You can steal this skill from the
Dukes.Additional Notes:
None

Location: Stolen
from Bosch in the first fight against him (Endsector Borough area).Additional Notes: Line attack -
great low level skill!

Hyper Kick

Location:
Found in the blue chest in Centre 4F main area (Hortensia to Jezuit
path).Additional Notes:
Knocks the enemy back quite far - only use at the end of combos.

Hazecut

Location:
Stolen from the Shadowplayers in the Lifeline LowSector stage.Additional Notes: None

Hex

Location: Bought
in the Ant Colony Skill shop for 240 zenny.Additional Notes: Doesn't deal any damage. If it hits,
it increases earned experience for the monster by 10%.

Spiritcharge

Location:
Found in the blue chest on the southern part of IndustTwo's second floor.Additional Notes: Great skill.
Increases the attack power of the next attack.

Bladesmack

Location:
Found on the fifth floor of Kokon-Horay.Additional Notes: Non-lethal attack.

Wild Swing

Location:
Found in the Lift to BioCorp stage. You can steal this skill from the Duke
Leaders.Additional Notes:
None

Discharge

Location:
Found in the blue chest in the Old TradeSector D stage.Additional Notes: This is one of
the best skills in the game! It allows Ryu to return any damage that was dealt
to him since the battle began, or he last discharged.

Crimson Raid

Location:
Stolen from Tantra's strongest form on the third floor of the IndustTwo
stage.Additional Notes: Ryu
absorbs some health when he hits an enemy with this skill. The health that is
transferred is too low to make this skill worthwhile.

Reversal

Location:
Found in the blue chest in the Mine Shaft Sector C area. You need to pass
through a D-Ratio door (256) to get to it though. The door in question is found
in the Lifeline TopSector area.Additional Notes: The lower that Ryu's life is, the more
damage that this skill deals.

Location:
Found in the blue chest on the second floor of the CorpLab stage.Additional Notes: Since this
attack hits multiple targets, it is going to be a major weapon for a long time
to come!

Deathcleaver

Location:
Found on the fortieth floor of Kokon-Horay. Additional Notes: Very strong skill! The problem is that
Ryu takes 10% of the damage that he deals!

Terrabreak

Location:
Stolen from Regent Vexacion in the Centre.Additional Notes: This is a great skill to use on highly
armored foes.

Crossviper

Location:
Found in the blue chest on the third floor of the PowerOne stage.Additional Notes: None

Circle Stage

Location:
Found in the blue chest in the Old TradeSector B stage.Additional Notes: This skill is
best used to cut down low level monsters.

Deathbringer

Location:
Ryu starts the game with this skill.Additional Notes: None

Violet Death

Location:
Defeat Captain Zeno after the Frozen Road stage to get her sword.Additional Notes: This skill can
only be used when Captain Zeno's sword, the Violet Blade, is equipped.

Great Smash

Location:
Found only on the Legend Blade. You can buy this sword towards the end of
the game.Additional Notes:
Found only on the Legend Blade.

NinaNina is your
group's wizard and main dealer of damage. She has two basic means of attack -
direct damage spells and trap spells. During the game you will use her to fight
with two distinctly different styles.

At some points in the game you will be relying heavily
on her traps. This is done to keep enemies away from your party. Place traps
either in the path of enemies or behind them. If you put them behind the
enemies, you can use knockback skills to push enemies into them!

For the most part, you will be chain-casting direct
damage spells, as they tend to deal more damage to a wider range. This is
especially true with the higher level ones. I suggest learning these skills as
soon as you!

Nina is the one character who really needs to keep three
weapons on hand. Keep three and thread ice spells into one, fire into another
and electric ones into the third. By doing this, you can always be able to
switch weapons and have what you need to fight anything that you
encounter!

Skills

10 AP Skills

Chop!

Location: The
Slapper +3 is found in the Lifeline MidSector D-Ratio area. You need to pass
through the southern D-Ratio door in the Lifeline LowSector to get there
though.Additional Notes:
Only
available on the Slapper weapon. It is her only physical attack...

Blunt

Location: Found
in the blue chest on the first floor of the CorpLab.Additional Notes: Debuff spell.

Weaken

Location:
Found on the thirtieth floor of Kokon-Horay.Additional Notes: Debuff spell.

Enfeeble

Location:
Found in the blue chest in the Old TradeSector C area.Additional Notes: Debuff
spell.

Location:
Found in the blue chest on the fourth floor of the Frozen Road area.Additional Notes: Medium area
trap spell.

Lightning

Location:
Dropped by the Bouncers on the second floor of the CorpLab.Additional Notes: Line direct
damage spell.

Teleport

Location:
Found on the tenth floor of Kokon-Horay.Additional Notes: Fun spell...

Transfer

Location:
Stolen from the RescueMechs on the third floor of the PowerOne stage.Additional Notes: Awesome skill
that lets Nina give AP to the frontline fighters. Especially useful when you are
prepping Ryu for a transformation...

Mirage Bomb

Location:
Found on the twenty-fourth floor of Kokon-Horay.Additional Notes: Smaller version of Mirage Blast. Trap
spell.

G-Iceblast

Location:
Found in the blue chest in the D-Ratio area of the Old Waste Shaft 5F
area.Additional Notes: Not
very useful, just fun to play around with.

30 AP Skills

Inferno

Location:
Found in the blue chest in the southern part of the third floor of the
Centre area.Additional Notes:
Large area
direct damage spell.

G-Inferno

Location:
Found in the CorpLab B1 blue chest. You need to get through a D-Ratio door
on CorpLab floor 1 though first.Additional Notes: Large area trap spell.

Blizzard

Location:
Found in the blue chest on the northern part of the third floor of the
Centre stage. Additional Notes:
Large circle direct damage spell.

Valhalla

Location:
Found on the forty-fifth floor of Kokon-Horay.Additional Notes: Large circular lightning attack.

Lag Valhalla

Location:
Found in the blue chest in the Centre 4F Main area.Additional Notes: A large area
effecting spell. Anyone caught within the area of effect at the end of the round
will take major damage. It can't be chain-casted...

Kyrie

Location: The
staff is bought in the Ant Colony Nina shop.Additional Notes: Only available on the Holy Heart
weapon. Automatically kills undead creatures caught in this circle spell.

Death

Location: The
staff is bought in the Ant Colony Nina shop.Additional Notes: Only available on the Demonscythe
weapon.

Shazam

Location:
Dropped by the Pantagruel in the southern part of second floor of the
Centre.Additional Notes:
Knocks enemies away.

Ragnarok

Location:
Found on the fiftieth floor of Kokon-Horay.Additional Notes: Takes three rounds to cast and doesn't
deal significant damage. It does hit almost everything on the battlefield
though! All that counts is that you have it!

Mirage Blast

Location:
Defeat a Pandora Box on the fourth round to get this skill. They are found
in the Centre.Additional Notes:
A small area trap spell that deals a lot of damage, even thought it doesn't
last too long on the battlefield!

Lin Lin is best at
long-ranged combat. There is no other strategy to using her, other than to keep
pounding on her most powerful attacks!

Skill

10 AP Skills

Greetings

Location:
Found in the blue chest on the first floor of the Frozen Road area.Additional Notes: None

Too Slow!!

Location:
Found in the blue chest on the northern part of IndustTwo's second floor.Additional Notes: None

Hey, Hey!

Location:
Lin starts the game with this skill.Additional Notes: None

How's That?

Location:
Found in the blue chest in the Lifeline TopSector stage.Additional Notes: None

There!

Location:
Found in the blue chest on the sixth floor of the Old Waste Shaft.Additional Notes: None

C'mere!

Location:
Stolen from Tantra in the IndustTwo stage.Additional Notes: Pulls a creature in towards Lin.

20 AP Skills

That's It!

Location:
Found in the blue chest in the Lifeline LowSector stage.Additional Notes: None

Go On!

Location:
Stolen from the Creepstalker on the first floor of the Centre stage.Additional Notes: Non-lethal
attack.

Stay Here!

Location:
Lin starts the game with this skill.Additional Notes: None

Keep At It!

Location:
Dropped by the Wonder Boxes on the second floor of the IndustOne stage. You
must leave it at 6-10 hit points remaining for it to drop the item...Additional Notes: None

Kidding!

Location:
Found in the blue chest in the Mine Shaft Sector D area. You need to pass
through a D-Ratio door (256) in the Lifeline TopSector area to get there
though.Additional Notes:
None

Outta My Way

Location:
Lin starts the game with this skill.Additional Notes: Knocks an enemy back.

Take This!

Location:
Stolen from the Asimov in the Frozen Road: Storage area.Additional Notes: None

30 AP Skills

A Present

Location:
Found on the twenty-fifth floor of Kokon-Horay.Additional Notes: Copies previous attack. I never found
this one useful.

Blow Up!

Location:
Found in the blue chest on the second floor of the Lift: Lowsector stage.Additional Notes: Large
cone-shaped blast area. This will probably be her main method of attack for the
entire game.

Shatter!

Location:
Found in the blue chest on the fourth floor of the PowerOne stage.Additional Notes: This spread
attack deals damage based on proximity, so if you are going to use, make sure
that Lin is close to someone, or it isn't really worth using.

Let's Dance!

Location:
Found in the blue chest on the second floor of the IndustOne stage.Additional Notes: Awesome circle
area spell! This one totally rocks!

Drop Dead!

Location:
Found in the blue chest on the southern part of the fourth floor of the
Centre.Additional Notes:
None

ShieldShield skills
cost an amount of AP per round to be active. You can have up to three shields
equipped and threaded. Every character should always have a Steal/Snatch shield,
a Feint shield and a Valor shield. Most of the other skills are pretty
pointless.

Skills

Physical Defense -25%

Location: Found only on Solid series shields.
Can't be threaded.Additional
Notes: Costs 10% AP.

Physical Defense -50%

Location: Found only on Solid series shields.
Can't be threaded.Additional
Notes: Costs 20% AP.

Magic Defense -25%

Location: Found only on Astral series shields.
Can't be threaded.Additional
Notes: Costs 10% AP.

Magic Defense -50%

Location: Found only on Astral series shields.
Can't be threaded.Additional
Notes: Costs 20% AP.

Universal Defense -25%

Location: Found only on Barrier series shields.
Can't be threaded.Additional
Notes: Costs 15% AP.

Universal Defense -50%

Location: Found only on Barrier series shields.
Can't be threaded.Additional
Notes: Costs 30% AP.

Counter

Location:
Found in the Lift: Lowsector stage. Steal it from the Duke Battler on the
second floor.Additional Notes:
Costs
10 AP. Useless (character counters with Circle-bound 10 AP attack only).

Valor

Location:
Stolen from Captain Zeno in the Frozen Road: Storage area.Additional Notes: Costs 10 AP. Once per battle, the
character will be revived with one HP should he or she die.

Feint

Location: Found
in the blue chest on the second floor of the Frozen Road stage.Additional Notes: Costs 10 AP.
Blocks a single attack each battle.

Leech Power

Location:
Dropped by the Bug Leader on the third floor of the Frozen Road stage.Additional Notes: Whenever an
enemy hits the shield bearer, he or she will recover 5 AP.

Reflect

Location:
Stolen from the Duke Knights in the Centre 4F Main area.Additional Notes: Costs 20 AP.
Useless - same as Counter.

Steal

Location: Found
in the Lift to BioCorp stage, in the blue chest on the first floor.Additional Notes: Costs 5 AP. You
are given a chance to steal items when enemies attack you. This is an extremely
important skill!

Snatch

Location:
Found in the blue chest in the northern part of the fourth floor of the
Centre stage.Additional Notes:
Costs
15 AP. When you get this skill, immediately upgrade your Steal skill to this one
- the extra physical protection is nice!

Anger

Location:
Stolen from Regent Deamoned on the roof of the PowerOne stage.Additional Notes: Costs 5 AP.
Equip this one if you have nothing to steal...

Explosion

Location:
Stolen from the Petrophages in the second floor of the IndustOne stage.Additional Notes: No equip cost.
The shield explodes on the enemy that attacks the bearer. Useless, as it can
only be used once!

Duststorm

Location:
Found on the fifteenth floor of Kokon-Horay.Additional Notes: Costs 10 AP. Useless, since you
usually want the enemies in your face! Nina may like it though...